Old Mini Adverts

[BruceK]

Selling great fuel economy to the masses.

[BruceK]

ERA Turbo ad playing on Italian Job theme.

[ADRay]

my favorite... stuck as wallpaper on my ancient iPod Touch

[BruceK]

I like that ad.    Not too many Almond Green Minis were used.


Who would have guess The Flintstones influenced a Mini ad?  Based upon the surf theme and the license plate size, this seems to be for Oz built Minis.

[jeff10049]

A few I have.

[jeff10049]

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[Lone Star Mini]

where in the world do you guys find all these.. they are quite fun..

[jeff10049]

A few more, also I need to take pictures of all the old posters mini ads and posters I have and post as well.

[BruceK]

Wow. I love that last photo of the packed room with Minis on shelves?  Is that from Japan?   Or the Netherlands?  (seem to be a lot of Dutch plates)

[ve9aa]

Awesome ads guys ! !  Keepm' comin'

Well done.

[BruceK]

Lucas pitching as an OEM supplier to BMC.

[BruceK]

Mr. Bean sells out for the Japanese market!

[BruceK]

Reviving an old thread.

How is this for a rich, feature-based print advertisement?   Our new model has "big wheels"!   ;D

Back when the Aussies improved the Moke.

[BruceK]

An actual TV commercial right after the Mini's launch.  It's got crazy animation too.   Looking mighty fine in gray color.

It's British, yet they use the word trunk. Huh? 

[BruceK]

And here is a long Mini TV commercial from Australia.

There's some pretty racy sexual innuendo in this one.

[BruceK]

This was such a '60s phenomenon With multiple manufacturers which really died out by the 70s.

[BruceK]

Aerodynamics?

[MPlayle]

That nose conversion reminds me of the old Subaru 360s.

[MiniDave]

The radius on the wheel wells on the Sprint looks odd?

[BruceK]

The radius on the wheel wells on the Sprint looks odd?

Odd?  How about this version? 

[BruceK]

An ad for a contest to win the 1,000,000th Mini built, some 57 years ago, and the actual car more recently.

I guess the advertising guys thought it was going to be a dark colored car... but when it came down the assembly line it wasn't.

[BruceK]

The car in this ad, 731 HOP, is pretty famous. It was a test car in a number of car magazines and it also appeared on TV as the main character's Mini in at least one TV series: "Secret Agent" (aka "Danger Man") with Patrick McGoohan (Who later starred in "The Prisoner" with some Mini Mokes).

[BruceK]

Ad for post-1973 Mini in Canadian market big bumper trim.

[MiniDave]

I don't remember the turn signals below the bumper, I thought they were in the grill?  8.gif

[BruceK]

Interesting marketing angle.  Not sure it would fly today.